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A school bus driver for Adams 12 Five Star Schools is suspected of sideswiping a vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol, Westminster police said. Westminster police say Burton Carpenter, 57, was transporting members of the Mountain Range High School freshman football team from a game at Prairie View

Amanda Bynes was due in court on Tuesday to answer Driving Under the Influence charges stemming back to an arrest in West Hollywood in April last year. But the 27-year-old has been ruled ‘mentally unfit to stand trial’ according to her lawyer Rich Hutton after he told the judge his

As a watchdog of DUI court cases, Cathy Stanley has noticed the trend for over a decade — more female defendants standing in front of judges. Statistics as well as a report scheduled to be released Thursday support her observation. Research shows that while the number of male drivers arrested

Jessie Thornton , a 64-year-old retired firefighter living in Surprise, Ariz., was charged with driving under the influence (DUI) back in December even though breathalyzer and toxicology tests showed he was completely sober. Now, he and his lawyer have told ABC 15 it was a case of “DWB.” “It’s driving

A California Highway Patrol officer charged with felony DUI in connection with a January chain-reaction crash is scheduled to have a settlement conference today in Shasta County Superior Court. Doreen Bernice Shaw, 43, an 18-year CHP veteran and Redding resident, is charged with two counts of felony DUI with injury,

An 18-year-old charged with DUI in a crash that killed five members of a local family had escaped from a juvenile detention center more than 30 days before the crash. Jean Ervin Soriano escaped on March 1 from the Youth Guidance Center in Santa Ana, which is operated by the